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...funds and other private creditors had stalled....
...funds and other resident investors....
...Ghana was attracting US pension fund money and major companies such as Volkswagen and Bosch....
...It had also set up a discretionary “support fund” for the hardest hit parents....
...Now, where that happens, there is the lifeboat scheme the Pension Protection fund that stands behind it. So most people will still get most of the pension they're entitled to....
...The problem is that the fund, however sizable, is actually not big enough to address the forecasted deficit in the state pension fund....
...In 2016/17, a total of 18 funds came to market raising more than £800m, the highest level since 2004....
...At a recruitment event in July, tradespeople from carpenters to pipeline painters demonstrated their work....
...The securities, which include catastrophe bonds and more bespoke collateralised vehicles, allow insurers and reinsurers to pass risks — often related to US windstorms — on to investors such as pension funds...
...Would-be underwriters courted them, mindful that pension funds and mutual funds sought to diversify away from the sovereign debt of the major economies in their portfolios....
...Around the world insurers, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are reassessing their appetite for risky assets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates....
...They said Flood Re might also tap pension funds and other institutional investors, which are pouring money into the industry in the face of low interest rates, through so-called collateralised reinsurance...
...The cash crunch continues for Greece, which has again threatened to default on International Monetary Fund repayments....
...Russia, meanwhile, has shown no desire to fund the region, insisting Kiev is morally obliged to do so even though it now exerts virtually no political control....
...But the long list of risks is not deterring investors, as ultra-low interest rates in the US, the UK, eurozone and Japan push sovereign wealth funds and pension funds into riskier countries in search of...
...Africa has become a magnet for pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds seeking higher-yielding assets....
...Foreign investors are already lining up for the bond, with many saying it would be oversubscribed as pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds seek higher-yielding assets....
...But Ukrainians nationwide are being squeezed between high inflation and government-imposed wage and pension freezes....
...The measure does have some advantages: it is fairly up-to-date and it covers wages, self-employment, pensions, taxes and benefits. But it also has some odd features....
...to fund her retirement....
...Private capital is a large part of the answer, in the form of foreign private equity, debt and the untapped resources of African pension funds and capital markets....
...Reinsurers are using their expertise to earn fees managing “insurance linked securities” (ILS) on behalf of pension funds, which are turning to the esoteric asset class in the hunt for yield but lack the...
...Neil Warwick is a northeast lawyer who works with local authorities around the country. His law firm has arguably been a winner from government spending cuts – but not financially, he says....
...and other big funds as unrealistic....
...My father, the son of a coalminer from Ashington, in northeast England, was 20 years old when he fought in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the second world war, the battle of Monte Cassino, in 1944....
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